Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA, Rock Creek Cemetery

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"Florence Lathrop Page," by Philip J. Funigiello, Chapter 8, Epilogue, page 241, University of Virginia Press, 1994
"As was their custom before the Great War, the Pages passed the winter of 1920-21 on the French Riviera, stopping in November 1920 at Baggrave Hall to comfort Minna who was recovering from a severe illness. They returned to the United States in May 1921, in preparation for the journey to York Harbor where they would spend the summer. On June 6, 1921, while she was visiting her younger daughter in Southboro, Massachusetts, Florence Lathrop Page died unexpectedly of a hemorrhage following a minor throat operation. She was sixty-two years of age at the time.
"Thinking to spare him anxiety, Florence had not told her husband in advance about the surgery, and he was away on business when the tragedy occurred. Following a private funeral, she was interred in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. A very plain gravestone in keeping with her perception of her life \endash a simple pedestal topped with carved swirls on which were chiseled the two vital statistics of birth and death and the inscription, 'In Loving Memory of Florence Lathrop Page Wife of Thomas Nelson Page' \endash marked her place of rest. At the base of the pedestal Thomas Nelson Page had inscribed the beatitude, 'Blessed Are the Pure in Heart,' which perhaps best defined the femininity of Florence Lathrop Page in her husband's eyes. The values of True Womanhood embraced her in death even as she had embraced them in life."http://books.google.com/books?id=haEp59v_0UIC&pg=PR4&lpg=PR4&dq=%22Florence+Lathrop+Page,%22+by+Philip+J.+Funigiello,&source=bl&ots=N7vp_60Ab2&sig=G7OO1grxwJh3TmQRGaaNmIm3kNg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E7QfUZfqPI3niwK3q4HABg&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw